Japanese Software: New Kingdom Hearts Dethrones New Super Mario Bros.

Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP overtook the dominant New Super Mario Bros. Wii in Japanese sales for the week ended January 10, Media Create said Thursday. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep sold 446,000 units, the tracking firm said–a figure reached in just two days on the Japanese market. The game is a prequel to the 2002 PlayStation 2 game Kingdom Hearts, which launched the RPG series that mixes Disney and Square …

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